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Study: Female students wary of the engineering workplace

Why don’t more women enter the male-dominated profession of engineering? Some observers have speculated it may be due to the difficulties of balancing a demanding career with family life. Others have ...

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created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 23 | with audio podcast

A scarcity of college men leads women to choose briefcase over baby

American women today are more likely to earn college degrees than men with women receiving 57 percent of all bachelor's and 60 percent of all master's degrees. But are there consequences to having more women than men in college?

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created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Research shows entrepreneurial differences between the sexes

A study of the sexes reveals that when it comes to starting a business, women are more likely than men to consider individual responsibility and use business as a vehicle for social and environmental change.

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created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Female sex offenders protected by the criminal justice system

Female sex offenders receive lighter sentences for the same crimes than males says a study recently published in Feminist Criminology, a SAGE journal and the official journal of the Division on Women and Crime of the Americ ...

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created May 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Study finds significant skull differences between closely linked groups

In order to accurately identify skulls as male or female, forensic anthropologists need to have a good understanding of how the characteristics of male and female skulls differ between populations. A new study ...

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created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Minority women still most underrepresented in science despite progress

Thirty-five years after a landmark report documented minority women as the most underrepresented individuals in science, engineering, medicine and dentistry, dramatic improvements have occurred for women of color, but serious ...

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created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

If the market decides what stockbrokers earn, why are women on Wall Street earning less?

The recent excesses of Wall Street may be big news but behind the headlines there's another story: When it comes to men and women stockbrokers, someone is taking home a bigger paycheck.

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created May 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 8

Study: Social media and the Internet allowed young Arab women to play a central role in the Arab Spring

Over the course of 2011's momentous Arab Spring uprisings, young women in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Bahrain and Yemen used social media and cyberactivism to carve out central roles in the revolutionary struggles under way in ...

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created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Women use strategies to overcome discrimination in large law firms

(Phys.org) -- Women and people from ethnic minorities have to employ special strategies to overcome institutional discrimination when working in large law firms.

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created Apr 13, 2012 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Study: Parsing the pill's impact on women's wages

(PhysOrg.com) -- Although women continue to lag behind men in pay, the gender wage gap has narrowed considerably since the 1960s. Now a new University of Michigan study is the first to quantify the impact ...

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created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study suggests women CEOs face a 'green ceiling' in attracting IPO investors

When it comes to a company’s critical stock market debut, investors are less likely to trust their money to an enterprise led by a female CEO, a University of Utah researcher says.

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created May 04, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Social security: Fixing the glaring gap for women

(Phys.org) -- After a lifetime of lower wages and time out of the labor market for caregiving, women typically receive less from Social Security than men, with millions of widows and women of color falling into poverty in ...

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created May 14, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Woman

A woman (irregular plural: women) is a female human. The term woman is usually reserved for an adult, with the term girl being the usual term for a female child or adolescent. However, the term woman is also sometimes used to identify a female human, regardless of age, as in phrases such as "Women's rights".

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